Hi Paul, On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Jean Pihet wrote: > >> Speaking of the locking, currently a spinlock is used and it could be >> replaced by a more efficient mutex. This is ok at the condition that >> this code is not called from interrupt context? >> >> Kevin, >> Do you know if the per-device constraint code can be called from >> interrupt context? > > It can't be. It uses a mutex itself. So a mutex is what we want. Take a > look at drivers/base/power/qos.c:dev_pm_qos_update_request() (included > below) Ok thanks for checking, I should have done it before asking ;-| Jean > > > - Paul > > > /** > * dev_pm_qos_update_request - modifies an existing qos request > * @req : handle to list element holding a dev_pm_qos request to use > * @new_value: defines the qos request > * > * Updates an existing dev PM qos request along with updating the > * target value. > * > * Attempts are made to make this code callable on hot code paths. > * > * Returns 1 if the aggregated constraint value has changed, > * 0 if the aggregated constraint value has not changed, > * -EINVAL in case of wrong parameters, -ENODEV if the device has been > * removed from the system > */ > int dev_pm_qos_update_request(struct dev_pm_qos_request *req, > s32 new_value) > { > int ret = 0; > > if (!req) /*guard against callers passing in null */ > return -EINVAL; > > if (WARN(!dev_pm_qos_request_active(req), > "%s() called for unknown object\n", __func__)) > return -EINVAL; > > mutex_lock(&dev_pm_qos_mtx); > > if (req->dev->power.constraints) { > if (new_value != req->node.prio) > ret = apply_constraint(req, PM_QOS_UPDATE_REQ, > new_value); > } else { > /* Return if the device has been removed */ > ret = -ENODEV; > } > > mutex_unlock(&dev_pm_qos_mtx); > return ret; > } > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html